Seagate enhances storage portfolio
To address the dramatic growth in data creation and consumption, Seagate has announced a series of significant product updates that support its mission to lead the world in storing, sharing and protecting data. Amongst the releases is a new Cloud Systems and Solutions...
Business continuity versus disaster recovery
Despite the importance of having business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) plans in place in the connected world, many organisations irrespective of size and industry are still struggling to get to grips with the differences between these two...
Metadata key in backup, recovery
Metadata is data about data. It tells us who authored a document, when, what the document contains and where the file "fits" in relation to other data. Metadata is important because it is a key enabler of data storage, retrieval and/or restoration – a vital...
Seagate ships first 8Tb hard drive
Seagate Technology has announced that it is shipping the world’s first 8Tb hard disk drive. An important step forward in storage, the 8Tb hard disk drive provides scale-out data infrastructures with supersized-capacity, energy-efficiency and the lowest total cost of...
NetApp, VMware extend relationship
NetApp has announced it is extending its more than a decade-long alliance with VMware to help customers transition to an IT future that is increasingly software defined and embraces cloud computing. As a leader in software-defined storage (SDS), NetApp is forging a...
10th anniversary of WD My Passport
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of its My Passport line of portable external hard drives, WD, a Western Digital company, is introducing a sleek new design for the world’s most popular external hard drive lines. More than 60-million My Passport drives have been...
Flash adoption improves efficiencies
Flash technology has become a reliable, revolutionary performance-driving storage option for the most demanding and mission-critical enterprise data sets. Servaas Venter, country manager of EMC Southern Africa, says flash has enabled the IT industry to provide the...
Portable storage for digital content
The Internet has revolutionised not only the way people work and socialise, but also our entertainment. No longer do we need stacks of records, tapes or CDs to own thousands of songs, nor do we need piles of DVDs and Blu-ray disks to have a world of television and...
Seagate offers NAS and NAS Pro lines
Seagate Technology has recently announced a new portfolio of Networked Attached Storage (NAS) solutions specifically designed for today’s small businesses. The new portfolio includes five NAS products in a range of capacities from 2Tb to 30Tb and performance perfectly...
Keeping an eye on your data
The term big data has become increasingly recognised in the business world over the past few years. While it might have become something of a marketing term, most can appreciate the concept of more smart devices producing data in ever-increasing quantities. The...
Contact centres can drive banking growth
The banking sector in Africa is becoming increasingly competitive on the continent. Contact centres can provide financial service organisations with an edge. They can assist to improve customer service, drive sales, lower the cost of products, ensure compliance and...
Flash is important for the channel
Distribution is in the midst of one of the most turbulent times in its history. Seemingly out of nowhere, the once simple world of hardware resale has been turned on its head and partner organisations have had to get to grips with new technologies and new business...